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J.B.BRAY. VELOGIPEDE SLEIGH.

Patented Apr. 18,1882.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES B. BRAY, OF WAVERLY, NEW YORK.

VELOClPEDE-SLEIGH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,634, dated April 18, 1882.

Application filed January 24, 1882.

- and driven like a velocipede, but which has also runners, that adapt it to move over roads covered with snow or upon a surface of ice. Vehicles for this purpose have heretofore been invented in which themain frame or backbone was supported upon runners at its rear end and. vertically-pivoted runners at its front end, and had a seat on top and a central wheel with spiked periphery, and crank-treadles, by which the same was driven.

My invention relates to this general form; and it consists in arranging the drive-wheel and the front runners upon independent vertical centers, and then connecting the crankpedals ofthe drive-wheel to the front runners;

whereby the turning of the drive-wheel by the cross-bar at the top is made to also turn the runners in the same direction to secure a more perfect control of the device in turning or guiding it, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A represents thebackbone or main frame. B is the drive-wheel, which has a spiked periphery, and is contained in the forked frame (J, swiveling-about a vertical bearingin the backbone and terminating in a crossbar at the top, forming handles. rear runners, rigidly attached to the backbone at its lower rear end, and D are the front runners, which are connected to the front end of the backbone by a king-bolt, a, which formsa vertical hearing about which the said'runners may turn.

Upon each side of the drive-wheel, and rigidly connected with its axis, are the double crank-pedals E, which, at a point concentric with the axis of the wheel, are connected to O are the (No model.)

the front runners by rods F F. Now, in turning the vehicle to guide the same it will be seen that the turning of the main wheel about its vertical center and the turning of the front runners about their vertical center are simultaneousl y effected through the rods F F with an exactlycorresponding degree ofdeflection and by one and the same adjustment, which, it will be seen, secures the best possible results in guiding the vehicle by causing the plane of the wheel and the direction of propulsion to be always parallel with the plane of the guiderunners.

I do not confine myself to making the front runners to turn and connecting them to the wheel, as shown; but I may make these runners stationary and arrange the rear runners to swivel about a vertical center and connect them to the double crank-pedals.

I may also use other forms of connection than rods F F between the swiveling runners and the crank-axle-sueh, for instance, as cords or other equivalent means for making the wheels and the runners to turn together.

7 Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. In a velocipede-sleigh having a main drivewheel and a pair offront and rear runners, the combination, with said drive-wheel arranged to turn on asvertical center, of one of said pair JAMES B. BRAY.

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J. F. SHOEMAKER, EDWD. W. BYRN. 

